Teachers' burnout, depression, role ambiguity and conflict

Social Psychology of Education

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 295-314

  Papastylianou, Antonia ^a   Kaila, Maria ^b   Polychronopoulos, Michael ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Depression; Role conflict ambiguity; Teachers' burnout

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349494240     PISSN: 13812890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11218-008-9086-7     Document Type: Article

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